Failed to build cpp_package on Windows

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Hello,

tried to build the cpp_package but it fails:

1>------ Build started: Project: cpp_package_op_h, Configuration: Release x64 ------
1>“Running: OpWrapperGenerator.py”
1>C:/Projects/MxNet-130/build/Release/libmxnet.dll
1>Traceback (most recent call last):
1> File “OpWrapperGenerator.py”, line 429, in
1> raise(e)
1> File “OpWrapperGenerator.py”, line 423, in
1> f.write(patternStr % ParseAllOps())
1> File “OpWrapperGenerator.py”, line 318, in ParseAllOps
1> cdll.libmxnet = cdll.LoadLibrary(sys.argv[1])
1> File “C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\ctypes_init_.py”, line 422, in LoadLibrary
1> return self.dlltype(name)
1> File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\ctypes_init.py", line 344, in init
1> self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
1>OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(171,5): error MSB6006: “cmd.exe” exited with code 1.
1>Done building project “cpp_package_op_h.vcxproj” – FAILED.
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 3 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

MXNET builds in release and debug mode, but the cpp_package fails on the opwrapper to generate the op.h include file. I have put a print statement in opwrapper.py, to see which file is in the command line, but that seems OK.

System: Windows 10 Pro X64
MXNet 1.3.0
Visual Studio 17 professional, using toolset v14.16
OpenCV 3.4.4
MKL
No CUDA/CUDNN
CMake 3.12.4
Anaconda3 64 bit

Looking for a solution

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Found the solution by setting the OpenCV release dir to the PATH. Now it generates the OpWrapper.h include file.

But compiling the examples breaks because mxnet_static.lib not found by the linker.

This problem can be solved by changing the mxnet_static.lib library reference to (SolutionDir)(Configuration)\libmxnet.lib in the linker properties of the example project files (need to do that for every example).

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Hi, can you share the CMakeList.txt configuration file that you used and successfully built mxnet? because of my environtment and version are same as yours

Thank you in advance…

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Hi, you can download my CMakeList from here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vdefwj4dibc9da6/CMakeLists.txt?dl=0

That should do the job, just have a look at path to 3rd party software (MKL) I have set, you need to put in your own. I ran CMake from the CMake GUI (ignoring some red highlighted problems). Running CMake from VS2017 didn’t work out for me. Please let me know if you succeed!